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Grammarian-bot Posted 20 years ago
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What does this sentence means?

We spoke to them out of politeness.
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Grammarian-bot We spoke to them out of politeness. GB We spoke to them because we were being polite. We weren't really interested in talking to them, but we knew it was the polite thing to do.

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  • Grammarian-bot We spoke to them out of politeness.
  • GB We spoke to them because we were being polite.
  • We weren't really interested in talking to them, but we knew it was the polite thing to do.
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Grammarian-botWe spoke to them out of politeness.
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We spoke to them because we were being polite. We weren't really interested in talking to them, but we knew it was the polite thing to do.
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"out of sth" here is used to show the reason why sth is done

I asked out of curiosity.

She did it out of spite.

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Can I use for instead of out of?

We spoke to them for politeness.
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LatinCan I use for instead of out of?

We spoke to them for politeness.
Only if you change it to:
We spoke to them (just / strictly) for politeness reasons.
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